In less than two years after they were de-silted, sewer lines behind the Tema Community One Barclays Bank have burst again, thereby gushing out faecal liquid and human excreta.
On Monday morning, when The Chronicle visited the scene, hundreds of shops, including food joints, could not open as volumes of the nauseating faecal liquid and faeces had engulfed the entire aisle and spaces under the shops.
Among solid materials that gushed out from the lines were condoms, pampers and pieces of waste fabric and that, could be substances that might have choked the sewer lines, hence forcing the liquid to spill from the cesspit.
For over a decade now, the mess has been a common spectacle in most parts of the Tema metropolis, because residents have continuously failed to use tissues to clean up after using the lavatories.
Others have turned the cesspits into litter bins where they drop their babies’ waste diapers among other insoluble materials.
Interestingly, most traders in the Tema Central Business Market (CBM) were clear in their responses to The Chronicle that they often use pieces of waste fabric other than toilet rolls after using the public toilets in the market.
They defended the action by saying they feel more comfortable using the fabric than the papers, which were provided to persons who use the public toilets in the market.
The answer was no different when The Chronicle interacted with some tailors in the market who claimed they saw no reason why they had to spend money on toilet roll when pieces of waste textiles could serve the same purpose.
The culprits said they drop the cleansing materials or textile into the water closets and then flushed it, because the toilets did not have litter bins provided for persons to drop any anal cleansing material.
Indeed, the incessant dropping of such pieces of fabric and other materials such as pampers, pads, condoms and other insoluble anal cleansing materials, had necessitated the regular choking of the sewerages, which effect are the unpleasant odour being experienced in the CBM.
As at the time of leaving the area, shop owners were left stranded.
When The Chronicle visited the office of the head of the Metro Waste Management Department at about 10am to seek answers about the sickening mess, the office was closed.
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